Apparently the emotions raised by this story are stronger than I'd realized. I'd rather not have pitchfork and torch wielding readers, caught off guard by the story, hunting me down.

Or, to put it another way, I'm a bit wigged by how dark people think this story is. Given that velvetwhip writes stories that squick me, I was surprised by her comment. Even with kayt_arminta's comment, I almost replied with "I'd be happy to post it to darker_vault but do you really think it's dark enough for that community?" While I don't think that parcae_lj is really threatening me, having somebody upset by what I thought was a fairly innocuous story? Disturbing. At least she's not the only one who is upset...